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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging read more
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He read more
Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He pushed them... And they flew. -Peter McWilliams.
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age read more
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and
provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and
provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea read more
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the
distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly
bodies.
If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get read more
If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.